APC warns of Fayose’s alleged ‘squandermania’

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has raised the alarm over what it called the ‘squandermania’ of Governor Ayodele Fayose.

The party, in a statement at the weekend by its State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, alleged that Fayose bought a N43 million Range Rover while still a governor-elect and passed the bill to the government.

The statement read: “Our attention has been drawn to a publication where Governor Ayo Fayose reportedly accused his predecessor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, of being after self comfort.

“If there is any Ekiti governor past or present who is after self comfort but pretends to be a friend and lover of the masses, it is Fayose.

“The governor’s reference to accreditation of courses at the State University shows that he either lacks information and proper briefing on the transformation that took place under Fayemi or he is simply mischievous.

“It was during the Fayemi administration that 52 courses were accredited for the first time in the 32 years existence of that institution.

“The former governor was the first to release N400 million capital grant to the institution.

“During this period, the College of Medicine which is awaiting accreditation was given approval to operate by the Nigerian Medical Registration Council of Nigeria.

“Fayose’s attempt to rewrite history will fail because his past antecedents as a master of stunts and a pretender will continue to hunt him as it is doing now.

“Fayemi’s achievements are there for all to see and no amount of bad blood and hagiography can erase it. It is not by prostrating and weeping before teachers that ensures their welfare but by lasting welfare packages and institutional reforms which his predecessor put in place.

“Ekiti teachers are one of the best paid in the country with the core subject and rural allowance incentive as well as the 27.5 per cent teachers’ peculiar allowance. Teachers certainly did not earn N19,300 minimum wage during Fayose’s first term.

“Over 4,000 primary school teachers were promoted by the Fayemi administration; 13, 230 primary and junior secondary school teachers were trained.

“The standard of education improved considerably under the Fayemi administration and it was not by accident that Ekiti won the best secondary school teacher and second best primary school teacher in Nigeria last year.

“Performance in WAEC and NECO improved considerably from 24 per cent in 2010 to 53 per cent in 2013.

“This was how Fayose lied about a non-existent N50 million bed in the Government House. Fayemi served Ekiti with diligence, candour and deprivation.

“ Fayose knows that he lied about the N3billion cost of the new Government House and we challenge him to release independently verifiable documentary evidence to prove us wrong.

“Nobody could deny the fact that the Government House is a legacy bequeathed by the Fayemi administration for the use of his successors.

“No wonder the governor sleeps and works from the same Government House that he has condemned. Whether Fayose likes it or not, Ekiti will forever be grateful for the monument.”